Joris C. Verster • Kathleen Brady Marc Galanter • Patricia Conrod Editors 2012 Causes, Consequences and Treatment Drug abuse and addiction are common in clinical practice. Often they interfere with patient treatment or require an alternative approach. The volume Drug Abuse and Addiction in Medical Illness: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment discusses the causes and consequences of drug abuse […]
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M. R. Pinsky · L. Brochard · J. Mancebo M. Antonelli (Eds.) 2012 Physiological Reviews and Editorials Perhaps no field of medicine witnesses such dynamic change in practice over similar time intervals as the practice of intensive care medicine. Thus, the practice of intensive care medicine is at the very forefront of treatment and monitoring response innovation and […]
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M. R. Pinsky · L. Brochard · G. Hedenstierna M. Antonelli (Eds.) 2012 Physiological Notes ± Technical Notes ± Seminal Studies in Intensive Care The practice of intensive care medicine is at the very forefront of treatment and monitoring response. The substrate of this care is the critically ill patient who, by definition, is at the limits […]
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Edmond I Eger II Lawrence J. Saidman Rod N. Westhorpe Editors 2014 This story describes events in three succeeding eras: first, events during the time preceding and immediately after the demonstration of anesthesia; then those in the subsequent 90 years of slow evolution of the specialty, ending in the 1950s; and finally those from the […]
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Biagio Allaria Editor 2014
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Jesse M. Ehrenfeld • Maxime Cannesson Editors 2014 A Comprehensive Guide to Patient Monitoring Technology This book was written by world-renowned experts who specialize in developing, refining, and testing the technology that makes modern-day clinical monitoring possible. These individuals would like to share with you their excitement for what makes monitoring happen across a variety […]
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Samer N. Narouze Editor 2014 Nerve Blocks and Beyond Nearly 20 % of headache patients are suffering from “medically resistant” headaches, which by definition do not respond to available pharmacological management. The rise of effective interventions has provided treatment options for individuals with this otherwise intractable headache. Over the past few years, interest in interventional […]
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Jay A. Yelon • Fred A. Luchette Editors 2014 The new and well-written textbook, Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care (edited by Jay Yelon and Fred Luchette), is a timely and necessary addition to our current body of knowledge on this topic. The existing medical landscape in the United States includes a population of 315 million […]
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Elizabeth A.M. Frost Editor 2014 After a less than satisfying stint as a surgeon (no cures, just cut it out), I spent some time in internal medicine. There I found that arguments were the norm… does the Lancet publish better studies than the New England Journal of Medicine or does the New England Journal of […]
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Matthias Hübler • Thea Koch Karen B. Domino Editors 2014 Cases – Analysis – Preventive Strategies Do we learn enough from our errors? Probably yes, but we are not learning enough from the errors of others! Our knowledge increases during our professional life as we master more and more critical situations. This is called experience. […]
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